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1. Fox Movietone newsreel collection--World War II paper records, 1922-1946

   14,000 items. 37 containers plus 7 oversize. 16 linear feet. -- Moving Image Research Center, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Cameramen’s dope sheets (detailed notes of stories filmed), continuity sheets (synopses of newsreels distributed to theaters), and turnovers (one sentence descriptions of each story filmed) from this major pioneer in the newsreel industry. Collection also contains other paper materials including telegrams, speeches, photographs, programs, and memoranda that provide details of the newsreels created by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. Although the entire Fox Movietone newsreel collection spans 1916-1963, these materials document the World War II period.

2. Leighton W. Rogers papers, 1912-1982

   26 items. 4 containers plus 1 oversize. 1.5 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Aeronautical executive, army officer, and public official. Correspondence, diary and journal, biographical information, scrapbooks, map, and writings focusing on Rogers’s experiences as an employee of National City Bank of New York during the Russian revolution in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and his return to the Soviet Union in 1943-1944 as an aeronautical consultant for the United States Army Air Corps.

3. Dwight D. Eisenhower papers, 1944-1969

   9 items. 1 container plus 1 oversize. 2.7 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Soldier, supreme commander of allied forces in World War II, and president of the United States. Speeches and writings, military certificate and proclamations, letter, and memorial service program relating to Eisenhower's service as supreme commander in World War II and as president.

4. Jerauld Wright papers, 1853-1960

   3,500 items. 13 containers. 4.6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Naval officer. Correspondence, reports, newspaper clippings, printed matter, photographs, and other papers relating to Wright's naval career especially during World War II and after.

5. Joseph Taggart McNarney papers, 1917-1957

   50 items. 3 containers. 1.2 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   United States Army and Air Force officer. Diaries, logbooks, and photographs documenting McNarney's service during and after World War II as deputy supreme allied commander, Mediterranean Theatre; commanding general of United States forces, European Theater; and United States military governor in the American-occupied zone in Germany.

6. Ira Eaker papers, 1917-1989

   77,300 items. 218 containers plus 16 oversize and 2 classified. 89.6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   United States Army air corps officer, aviation pioneer, aircraft industry executive, and newspaper columnist. Part I consists of correspondence, memoranda, diaries, reports, meetings minutes, printed material, and other papers documenting Eaker's military career in the aeronautical section of the United States Army, particularly his experiences in World War II. Part II consists of correspondence, memoranda, diaries speeches, writings, and scheduling and subject files pertaining to Eaker's activities after leaving the military.

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7. Wallace Rankin Deuel papers, 1905-1971

   6,500 items. 62 containers plus 1 classified and 1 vault container. 20.8 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Intelligence officer and journalist. Correspondence, journals, writings, lectures, transcripts of radio broadcasts, scrapbooks, and other papers relating to Deuel's career as an intelligence officer during World War II with the Office of Strategic Services, as a journalist with the Chicago Daily News and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and as a foreign intelligence analyst with the Central Intelligence Agency.

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8. William J. Crowe papers, 1932-2003

   35,250 items. 141 containers plus 4 classified and 2 oversize. 56.4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Naval officer and diplomat. Correspondence, memoranda, biographical material, clippings, memorabilia, naval records, orders for duty, political campaign files, press releases, photographs, printed matter, scheduling notebooks, reports, research material, speeches and writings, and subject files relating chiefly to Crowe's naval career, service as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and tenure as ambassador to the United Kingdom.

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9. Robert Kleiman papers, 1935-1983

   5,000 items. 15 containers plus 1 classified and 9 oversize. 8 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Journalist. Correspondence, memoranda, propaganda material including leaflets, newspapers, printed matter, and ephemera, interrogations of prisoners of war, reports, newsletters, newspaper clippings, and other papers relating chiefly to Kleiman's service with the United States Office of War Information during World War II and pertaining to psychological warfare and the use of propaganda in the Far East, with a much smaller portion reflecting his work as a journalist before and after the war.

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10. Harold Gould Henderson papers, 1918-1955

    500 items. 1 container. .4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

    Summary:

    Author and professor of Japanese art and culture. Born 1889; died 1974. Correspondence, memoranda, reports, notes, military papers, and printed material pertaining to Henderson's service during World War II as chief of the Japanese Language Section of the Allied Forces South West Pacific Area Psychological Warfare Branch and following the war as head of the Education Division of the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers Civil Information and Education Section in occupied Japan.